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Source: The Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and History of Fulton County
Munsell Publishing Co., Chicago, 1908

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The Biography of Eli G. DAVIS, M.D. 

Transcribed exactly according to the original complete text by Anne Marie Willis. 

[Surnames: BAILEY, DAVIS, HAINES, KELLY] 

[Pages 851] 

    
DAVIS, Eli G., M.D., who is successfully engaged in the practice of medicine in Lewistown, Fulton County, Ill., was born in West Columbia, Mason County, W. Va., February 15, 1853, and is a son of Eugene B. and Susan E. Davis, natives of the State of Ohio. The family left West Virginia in 1865, and moved to Bushnell, McDonough County, Ill. 
    
The boyhood of Dr. Davis was spent in assisting his father in the cultivation of the home farm, and he received his preliminary education in the common schools of his neighborhood. In 1873 he entered Abingdon (Ill.) College, where he pursued a two yearsı course of study; then studied medicine with Dr. J. R. Kelly, and in 1880 became a student in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville. For five years he applied himself diligently and faithfully to his professional studies and after his graduation, in August, 1881, located at Bryant, Ill., where he remained until 1897, during which period he acquired an extensive practice. In the year last mentioned he moved to Lewistown, where he has been equally successful. He still continues to be a close student and keeps in constant touch with the latest developments in medical science. A large and lucrative patronage has rewarded his conscientious devotion to his profession, and he enjoys to a large degree the confidence and esteem of his numerous patients and the general public. 
    
On April 11, 1878, Dr. Davis was united in marriage with Lou M. Bailey, a native of Virginia, and their union resulted in two children, namely: Grant E., who is in the United States Mail Service, and James B., a druggist of La Harpe, Ill. In 1899 the mother of these sons succumbed to death, and on July 5, 1900, Dr. Davis was married to Mary E. Haines, of Lewistown. Politically the Doctor is identified with the Republican party, and fraternally is affiliated with the A. F & A. M., M. W. A., of which he is Medical Examiner, and other orders of a secret and benevolent nature.